Sin Ho Jun , Kim Haeng Gon

The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 133-142, Feb. 2004
10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11.1.133,   PDF Download:

Abstract

The next generation of web applications will need to be larger, more complex, and flexible. Agent-oriented systems have great potential for these e-commerce applications. Agents can dynamically discover and compose e-services and mediate interactions. Development of sofrware agents with CBD (Component Based Development) has proved to be successful in increasing speed to market of development projects, lowering the development cost and proving better quality. In this thesis, we propose a systemic development process for software agents using component and UML (Unified Modeling Language). We suggest a ebA (e-business Agent) CBD reference architecture for layer the related components through identification and classification of general agent and e-business egent. We also propose the ebA-CBD process that is a guideline to consider the best features of existing agent oriented software engineering methodologies, while grounding agent-oriented concepts in the same underlying semantic framework used by UML. We first developed the agent components specification and modeled it with Goal, Role, Interaction, and Architecture Model. Based on this, we developed e-CPIMAS (e-Commerce Product Information Mailing Agent System) as a case study that provides the product information´s mailing service according to proposed process formality. We finally describe how these concepts may assist in increasing the efficiency, reusability, productivity and quality to develop the business application and e-business agent.

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